"...is he okay Engineer?"
"I think so, he seems to be waking up."
"Jack?"
Jack groaned softly as he cracked his eyes open, surprised to see Mar-the Engineer, and Amy standing over him.
"Hey, are you doing okay?" The Engineer asked him gently.
"I feel like I was run over by a semi truck and then thrown against a brick wall." Jack grumbled as he sat up.
He was lying on his bed, Signe and Signe anxiously hovering close by against the wall.
"At least his imagination is intact." The Engineer chuckled quietly.
"What do you remember?" Robin interjected.
"Everything. My name is Jack Septiceye McBoss, prince of Bossatronia, I'm two thousand seven hundred years old, the Billycons and the Daleks attacked my planet, Mark's a time lord called the Engineer and my parents-" Sean's voice broke off at the end as tears instantly welled up in his sapphire blue eyes.
"My parents Betty and Sean McBoss are dead." He whispered, swallowing hard as a tear leaked from his eye and trailed down his cheek before dripping off of his chin onto his neck.
"And I never got to say goodbye." Jack sniffed as he furiously wiped the tear away as more fell, hating how weak and pathetic he felt.
"I'm so sorry." The Engineer apologized lamely, his gaze dropping to the floor.
"Bossatronia, is it-"
Jack broke off, afraid to ask if Bossatronia was still standing.
"Bossatronia is still there if that's what your wondering, however....someone new and tyrannical has taken it over." The Engineer answered somewhat hesitantly.
"People call him Anti since he looks exactly like you, but his behavior is completely different." The Engineer continued.
"When Billy took my blood, he must have cloned me like what he does to make his army." Jack scowled, wishing he could punch him in the face.
"And Ethan?" Jack added.
"He remembers as well." The Engineer nodded.
"I just-I can't believe you lied to me. All of you." Jack huffed in barely pent up fury, unsure if he could ever trust them again.
"Jack-"
"You made me forget my entire life!" Jack cut off Signe, glaring accusingly at the Engineer.
"It was to keep you safe!" The Engineer argued.
"Was it? Or are you just shoving me to the side so you can forget all about me like what you do with your other companions? What happened to the last guy you brought to my planet when I met you, huh? Oh that's right, he's dead because of you." Jack retorted.
"Is that what I am to you? Another companion?" Amy turned on the Engineer, fury blazing in her eyes.
"Of course not, I l-"
"Forget it." Amy scowled before storming out of the room.
"Amy wait!" The Engineer called after her. He hesitated before following after her, shooting Jack one last sympathetic glance before he left.
"Jack..." Robin sighed, unsure of what to say to apologize.
"Just don't." Jack shook his head before he hopped off of the bed and stormed out of the room.
Usually whenever he was angry he wanted to be alone, so he decided to go for a walk outside.
Every green plant he passed by only made him more homesick as he walked down the sidewalk, contemplating what he should do.
I have to take my planet back...but I don't want to abandon the people here that love my videos, Jack thought as he ran a hand through his emerald green hair.
He was yanked out of his thoughts when he suddenly felt an arm drag him into a nearby alleyway and press a cloth to his mouth and nose.
He struggled and tried to scream, but felt like he couldn't breath as black spots appeared in the corner of his vision and soon consumed his.
The last thing he heard was Robin call his name before he lost consciousness completely.
"Amy just listen to me!" The Engineer begged as he entered the TARDIS with her slightly ahead of him.
"Why didn't you tell me that I wasn't the only one you seduced into traveling with you?" Amy demanded, stopping to whirl around and glare at him.
"Because there was only one person before you!" The Engineer snapped in an angry tone before taking a deep breath to calm down.
"Before Gallifrey was destroyed, I came to Bosstronia with my brother for the first time when I was one thousand eight hundred." The Engineer paused, steeling himself before he continued.
"When we came back home, I went back to work at the TARDIS museum to finish fixing a type thirty-two on display. There was this man with white hair and a suit that got into the type forty I had finished fixing the day before, and I couldn't stop him from leaving. I took my own TARDIS to stop him, and the next thing I know....Gallifrey is nothing but a bunch of rocks floating around in space." The Engineer finished, leaning against the console with his head in his hands.
"I could've saved all of those people. That's why I'm trying so damn hard to fix this planet full of people that doesn't understand the true beauty of space." The Engineer explained as he suddenly looked up at Amy, his chocolate brown eyes filled with an anger Amy had never seen before.
"But all I've done is failed again and again." The Engineer ran a hand through his hair as tears welled up in his eyes before spilling down his cheeks and onto the black metal floor, making the teardrops look like rain in the light.
"And the first thing I thought before I saw Gallifrey blown to bits was that the man had taken my favorite type of TARDIS that I worked on every day since it was old, decommissioned, and derelict." The Engineer chuckled weakly, wiping his eyes with the back of his hand.
"I even counted how many children were on Gallifrey as I sat on the floor with my knees curled up to my chest, thinking I would be remembered as the man that let Gallifrey get destroyed." The Engineer glanced over at Amy as if to make sure she was still there.
"Where did you get this one then?" Amy asked softly, looking around in the machine she had spent almost a year traveling around in.
"It's a TARDIS I made on a junkyard planet filled with broken TARDISES. I poured my soul into it for years with my dad before he died in the Time War. He's the one that encouraged my love for space." The Engineer admitted, his gaze distant as he ran his hand along the console behind him.
"Why did you lie to me about the type of TARDIS?" Amy frowned.
"Rule number one: the Engineer lies." The Engineer smiled sadly.
"Why are you telling me all of this now?" Amy pressed, feeling as confused as she did the first day she met him.
"Because I-"
"Guys, we have a problem." Robin panted, interrupting the Engineer as he poked his head into the TARDIS.
"Jack was kidnapped."
